Chapter 232

"Hmm?"

Hayasaka Ai was stunned, her expression surprised and astonished.

"I saw you were sleeping, so I wanted to wake you up..."

Kitakami Yoru explained awkwardly.

"I know."

Hayasaka Ai was always paying attention to the movement in the bus, propped her small hand on the window sill, and stood up.

Kitakami Yoru stood up at the same time.

At this time, a chain reaction occurred on the narrow lane.

The bus Kitakami Yoru and the others were riding in was unfortunately hit in the rear.

Intermittent collisions, the bus jolted.

Many students scrambled to hold onto surrounding objects.

Hayasaka Ai lost her footing, and inertia made her fall backward, her head about to hit the carriage.

Kitakami Yoru grabbed her wrist and pulled her back.

"Everyone wait a moment, there was a rear-end collision..."

"Is everyone okay? Is anyone hurt?"

The driver and Shinomiya Kaguya looked back at the same time.

"Thank you..."

Hayasaka Ai glanced at Kitakami Yoru and pulled her hand back.

"You're welcome."

Kitakami Yoru nodded indifferently and looked back curiously.

"I had confessed to him before..."

Hayasaka Ai stood firm and recalled the day at the subway station when she lost a game and was forced to confess to Kitakami Yoru.

Looking at Kitakami Yoru now, she suddenly felt a bit embarrassed.

The rear-end collision had subsided.

It was a chain reaction.

Kitakami Yoru didn't stay long and got off the bus.

Following the massive crowd, he moved forward.

It wasn't strange that the nursing home was built in such a remote and old place; in any case, it couldn't be built in the city center.

Shinomiya Kaguya led the way in front.

Kitakami Yoru walked in the team, slightly toward the back, where girls deliberately fell behind to hit on him.

It made him a bit surprised and didn't know what to do...

And a bit annoyed.

A while later.

The nursing home revealed its true face.

Everyone arrived at the entrance, where a plaque read Arakawa Ward Nursing Home.

The surroundings were very open, the road was flat, and the environment was clean and tidy.

The nursing home staff were welcoming everyone.

A nursing aunt who looked to be in her thirties walked up.

Shinomiya Kaguya went up to coordinate the work.

"Thank you to all the students of Xiuzhiyuan for being willing to come to our nursing home to help the elderly and care for the elderly."

"Everyone come in and rest for a while."

The nursing aunt greeted everyone to go in.

The nursing home wasn't surrounded by walls or barbed wire, but an arched gate plaque was designed.

It covered a large area, and the floor was concrete.

When Kitakami Yoru and the others went in, the nursing aunt briefly introduced the origin of the nursing home.

Japan is a country with a high aging population, and this is considered a social welfare institution.

After going in, Kitakami Yoru could see many grandpas and grandmas wandering around.

The nursing aunt quickly introduced the location of the nursing home's buildings, the cafeteria, and where to go for water if thirsty.

Restrooms, tool rooms, vegetable gardens, etc...

Work content, etc.

It was just to be a free volunteer here for a day.

But it wouldn't be very tiring; there was rest time, and after finishing simple work, they could accompany the elderly to play chess and chat.

After resting for a while, the nursing aunt began to assign work and roll call from the roster.

"Tokisaki Kurumi..."

"Here!"

Tokisaki Kurumi, wearing the Xiuzhiyuan uniform, walked out of the crowd.

"Kurumi."

Kitakami Yoru's gaze was attracted.

As soon as he saw Tokisaki Kurumi, he would think of his own Kurumi.

"Kitakami Yoru."

Subsequently, Kitakami Yoru heard his name and stepped forward.

"This student is so handsome."

The nursing aunt was stunned for a few seconds before continuing the roll call.

A while later, the work for twenty people was assigned.

Kitakami Yoru and Tokisaki Kurumi, along with two other boys, were assigned to the vegetable garden to weed and catch insects.

Kitakami Yoru and the other three gathered together.

Everyone was obviously unfamiliar, each greeted simply, and that was it.

They walked to the tool room together to collect weeding tools.

The other two boys walked together, while Kitakami Yoru and Tokisaki Kurumi walked slightly closer; after all, they were just nodding acquaintances...

"What a coincidence, Kitakami."

Tokisaki Kurumi greeted him with a shallow smile.

"It is a bit of a coincidence, haha."

Kitakami Yoru smiled.

Arriving at the tool room, everyone received a pair of old gloves and a small shovel.

Putting on gloves, they walked toward the vegetable garden behind the nursing home.

Rather than a vegetable garden, it was more like a large vegetable planting base.

By estimation, it was a full football field in size.

"Also, vegetables are expensive, the elderly can grow a part themselves, definitely saving where they can..."

"And the nursing home doesn't have that much money."

Kitakami Yoru sighed and walked into the vegetable garden.

The four people dispersed to work.

"Is this a cucumber?"

Kitakami Yoru held a small shovel, checking around, and stopped at a built-up rack.

The vine, as thick as a chopstick, had young white fluff, bearing small yellow flowers and a melon the size of a middle finger.

Curiously lifting it, Kitakami Yoru looked at it for a while and then put it down.

Next, he discovered small wild vines on the ground growing on the rack along with the cucumber, bending and winding, competing for nutrients.

Using the small shovel to dig out the weeds and vines by the roots, Kitakami Yoru searched carefully.

Unknowingly.

Kitakami Yoru walked through several vegetable plots, pumpkins, Chinese cabbage, corn...

He did dig up some weeds, not very many.